 From there he went on to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.However, Gough disliked the Royal Navy, and after three years serving as a midshipman on and , he left.Originally intending to go into farming and horse-breeding in India (his father had been a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Indian Army and he had been born there at Kasauli), Gough returned to Britain after two years to join a firm of insurance brokers affiliated with Lloyd's of London.